HTML 5 - what now?

New standard of the World Wide Web has increased again.  Not many people are familiar with HTML 4 yet, and now HTML 5 is released.

The main difference of HTML 5 from version 4 is as below:

  • New parsing rules
  • New elements – section, video, progress
  • New Input attributes – time, email, url
  • New attributes – ping, charset, async
  • Global attributes (that can be applied for every element) – id, tabindex, repeat
  • Elements no longer compatible with HTML 4 – a, hr, strong (what?  no HR?)
  • Elements dropped – center, frame, strike (who use frame anyway)

The HTML 5 project is powered by WHATWG started 2004 (really) and was adopted by W3C in 2007 as the new standard of the markup language.  The standard was originally named Web Applications 1.0. 

Fellow web designers - some more fun stuff to play with :)

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One Response to “HTML 5 - what now?”

  1. Eric Says:

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